print; book-illustration; book

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print; book-illustration; book

Object Type: print; book-illustration; book
Museum number: 1978,U.455
Description: A book containing the complete illustrations to The Epping Hunt; consisting of six scenes; the first; a portrait of Thomas Rounding, seated by a side table with his glass and decanter, dressed in hunting clothes, surrounded by a frame with the heads of foxes, deer, and dogs; the second; a hunter clinging to the branch of a tree, having been knocked off his horse by the latter, the horse galloping to the left, his hat in the ditch below him; the third; a hunter mounted on his horse, turning in alarm to find the stag behind him, the animal with flowers round its neck and horns, an observer laughing in a tree beyond and other hunters galloping up to the chase in the distance; the fourth; hunters jumping over a hedge, one looking down to where one of their compnay rolls in the thorns, having been thrown from his horse, hounds in chase to the left; the fifth; a hunter on his hands and knees, his horse with its hind legs stuck on a five-bar gate and biting its master, the chase beyond; the sixth; a ragged and muddy hunter being cleaned with mops and brooms by the ostlers, the other huntsmen looking on and laughing; illustrations to Hood's "The Epping Hunt" (1828) Woodcut
Producer name: Print made by: George Cruikshank; Published by: Charles Tilt; Print made by: Robert Branston; Print made by: Samuel Machin Slader; Print made by: Thomas Williams
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Production date: 1828
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Bibliographic references: Reid 1871 / A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank (3588); Cohn 1924 / George Cruikshank, catalogue raisonné (406)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: equestrian; hunting/shooting
Associated names: Illustration to: Thomas Hood; Representation of: Thomas Rounding
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1891
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1978,U.455
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179

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